Word: suburbanization
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Time was when the Midwestern grain belt had the manicured look of a suburban lawn. In summer, rows of corn lined up neat as picket fences. In winter the plowed earth mimicked swatches of felt brushed clear of debris. But as this year's planting season gets under way, an increasing number of growers are "farming ugly" -- gunning their tractors over fields ajumble with great clods of dirt and raggedy stalks left over from last year's harvest...
...humor was Ehrenreich's emotional armor for the 1980s, it is also her best instrument of subversion. While other women are busy pointing fingers at one another for their family and career choices, Ehrenreich makes her case for working mothers by debunking, with the endearing sting of a suburban survivor, the guilt trips thrust upon them. Don't worry about missing your kid's "stages," she says, because "no self-respecting six-year-old wants to be reminded that she was once a fat little fool in a high chair...
FRAMES. Whether carrying Greg LeMond in a Tour de France alpine climb or a suburban parent with a child in tow, bicycle frames undergo incredible stress, especially where the hollow tubular pieces are joined. For decades, engineers struggled to strengthen frames while making them lighter. That task seemed impossible until manufacturers turned to materials used for jet fighters and missiles. Frames constructed of aluminum, titanium, carbon fiber and various metal combinations have proved to be stronger, stiffer, more shock absorbent and lighter than steel ones. The popular Kestrel frames from Cycle Composites, based in Watsonville, Calif., are made of molded...
...second novel, a way out eventually materializes. What could have become a drawn-out absurdist melodrama with yuppie trappings veers instead into an adventure story with nightmarish resonances. Poole is at first willing to suppose that his imprisonment was simply a bad dream. After all, he reappears in his suburban house to find that his wife Carmen has not noticed his absence. Another explanation occurs to Poole: he is going bonkers...
Polls show that Richards is strong among women, in urban areas and among voters who are new to Texas. Strategists believe she will make inroads among suburban Republican women under 45. Williams is popular with men, in rural areas and among those who long for the "old Texas," an imagined state of being that stands for an ever stronger Republican appeal. One estimate has 60% of Texans calling themselves conservatives, and a poll last week showed that 27% of Democratic votes could go to Williams this fall, more than enough to elect...